Dash-board for vehicles



1w 313,889. Patented Mar. 17, 1885,

full 5L3 a I w 8 S mm Max. WM

tl'NiTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE...

KARL JACOB SCHUSTER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DASH-BOARD FOR VEHICLES.

EPECIFICAI'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,889, dated March 17,1885.

Application filed June 11, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, KARL JACOB SOHUSTER. of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dash-Boards, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates to dash-boards for carriages or wagons, and has for its object to provide a means of securing the dashes in such a manner that they are readily adjusted to the carriagebody without the liability of the fastening being broken.

Heretofore it has been the custom to make holes through the lower railof the dash-frame for bolting it to the foot-piece. This greatly weakens the metal and renders it liable to be broken at that weak point by undue strain.

To effectually overcome this danger and pro vide a safe and easily adjustable fastening for the dash is the result of my improvement, which consists in making a shallow groove in one face of the lower rail of the dash-frame, and provide a foot-piece having a bifurcated upper arm into which the said groove sets and is secured firmly in place by a set-screw, the point of which fits in said groove.

ln the accompanying, drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a dash-foot, partly in section, showing the mode of securing the dash therein. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a part of the dashframe, showing the longitudinal groove.

A is a dash-foot, the lower part of whichis designed to be secured to the body of a carriage or wagon. The upper arm is bifurcated or divided into two parts, between which the dash-frame Bis designed to fit. The lower rail, 13, has a longitudinal groove, 1), made in one of its side faces.

0 is a set-screw fixed in the inside half of the bifurcated arm, which, when screwed up tight, its point fits into the said groove in the dash-rail, and thereby firmly secures said rail in place. The shallow groove 22 does not weaken the rail, but furnishes a bearing for the screw, which enables the rail to be ad justed at any given point from the end, as the case may require, as the bodies of carriages vary somewhat in width. In covering these frames there is no need of making any holes for screws or bolts, thus making a better and neater finish.

Having described my invention, I claim- The combination, with dash B, having grooved rail b, of the dash'foot A, having bifurcated upper arm into which the grooved rail sets, provided with the set-screw C, for securing the rail therein, all constructed and arranged for adjustment substantially as and for the purpose specified.

KARL JACOB SCHUSTEB. 

